Barrack Zailaa Rima’s Beirut Resists Categorization
Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic point always undergoing change.
Rima offers readers an understanding of Beirut as both a single city and a city multiplied, a geographic point always undergoing change.
Gatekeepers of Baghdad decide who lives, who dies, during 2019 protests against high unemployment, state corruption, and poor services.
Amal Ghandour, author of "This Arab Life," casts her penetrating gaze on the burdens of Lebanon, including the economic meltdown and political gridlock.
Young Lebanese comic writer-illustrator duo Raja Abu Kasm and Rahil Mohsin convey what they think of corruption and their disintegrating country.
El Habib Louai on the Moroccan novel that sizes up and lampoons a country coming into its own in the internet age.
Novelist Samir El-Youssef recalls adolescent challenges and more recent experience where wasta was a necessity.
In which C.S. Layla, the American daughter of a Jordanian professor, remembers life and wasta in the old country.
Lawrence Joffe on how the al-Assad and Makhlouf families have mastered the art of control and corruption in a country decimated by a decade of war.
Overcome by the staggering violence of the explosion that ravaged Beirut in August, Paris-based playwright and director Wajdi Mouawad suggests that a world public forum must condemn Lebanon's ruling class.